(usagi-users 00727) Re: Site-local addresses

[Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:34:24 AM -0400 Parijat Mishra
<parijat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am trying to build a IPv6 testbed with four PCs.  Two will be
> configured  as routers, with one machind behind them each,
> simulating subnets.
> 
> My question is, can I use site-local addresses (fec0:0:0:) as
> addresses  for the machines?
Yes.

> I tried, but it seemed that the
> routers wouldn't route.   I was using native linux IPv6
> functionality for that.  Perhaps USAGI  kernels can?  The issue of
> course, is to tell the routers that the packets  are indeed
> travelling within the "site"...
No problems are known. Perhaps forwarding is not enable or prefix
length isn't set proper.

Do you have already took a look into tcpdump's output on each
interface on the router and analyzed what's happen?

        Peter